Captian Worf to the bridge...

[Drich]

Enterprise was such a giant missed opportunity that it makes me furious. Imagine the greatness that could have ensued if they had really dared to do a proper prequel during the dawn of human interstellar travel, where nothing is taken for granted, and nothing quite works. Imagine no proper automatic translators for everything (or unreliable ones!). No real transporter technology, navigation between the stars that is still an art form and can go wrong, and then do star trek with that. Drop some good writing on top of that, it would have been so epic.

What they did instead is upgrade the tech to basically TNG standards within a few episodes so they could recycle old storylines. And recycle old storylines they did, ad nauseam. They have basically shown to be entirely without vision.

Thank Rick burman for that. He was roddenberry's understudy, and could only produce various shades of vanilla(tng). Don't get me wrong I like vanilla, I have some in my freezer right now.. However it is nice to have strawberry and cholocalate once in a while as well.

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The problem with Star Trek is its overwhelming reliance on self reference. Self reference unfortunately Simultaneously constricts the storyline and destroys believe ability of any prequel set 200 years before anything else in the imaginary timeline. To really work, Enterprise needed to essentially avoid all references to any of the later series except a few events mentioned in later series.

Or at least allow us to see the initial spark that would develop into later series.

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I think enterprise could work if they did a proper non Rick burman reboot like they did with the new movies. Star Trek like Star Wars is too big for one man's vision if indeed it is to encompass a whole galaxy of diversity.